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His response is as follows:A recent refurbishment of the library included repainting, the installation of new comfortable seating and carousel book display racks.
How would that concern by allayed by that new role for the Crown? According to the Executive, the Crown would not just be left as ultimate superior, but would have to be given a new role as a public guardian.
I was not aware of that, but it is good news. We will produce a report based on the evidence that we have taken, some of which has come from Ireland and New York.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail representations it has received from housing association tenants seeking the right to buy. We have received a number of letters and telephone calls from housing association tenants.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will report on its consultation on right to buy by housing association tenants and in particular on any identified specific problems arising in Partick.
The Bail, Judicial Appointments etc (Scotland) Bill does not say that—it does not say that a part-time sheriff can sit for only 100 days. The nebulous provision in new section 11A(7) puts the doubtful duty on the sheriffs principal to have "regard to the desirability" of seeing that a part-time sheriff sits a minimum...
We have our part to play in changing world conditions and in loving the neighbour whom we see only on television.When a group of young people from Belarus visited our Parliament, they were amazed at the access that we had to our politicians.